From Slavery to Freedom

Politics & Social Sciences

Franklin,John Hope

Social Sciences

Vintage/Random House

Read by Michael Hayden Six cassettes / approx. 10 hours The chilling crime fiction classic--now a major motion picture from Paramount, starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, and Jude Law, written and directed by Anthony Minghella (The English Patient), and produced by Sydney Pollack. In Tom Ripley, Patricia Highsmith created the perfect criminal. In The Talented Mr. Ripley, circumstances and opportunities transform him from a petty perpetrator of fraud into a suave, agreeable, and totally amoral artist of crime, who will stop at nothing--certainly not a single murder--to get what he desires.

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Patricia, Highsmith

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Martin Amis's short stories make his novels look prim, They are also more frankly satirical. Whole worlds are created - or inverted. In 'Straight Fiction', everyone is gay (apart from the beleaguered 'straight' community); in 'Career Moves', screenplay writers submit their works to little magazines, while poets are flown first-class to Los Angeles; in 'The Janitor on Mars', a sardonic robot gives us some strange news about life in the solar system. Largely absent in the novels, the middle classes get a showing in 'Let Me Count the Times', where a man has a mad affair with himself. 'Heavy Water' portrays the exhaustion of working-class culture, 'State of England' its weird resuscitation. And in 'The Coincidence of the Arts' an English baronet becomes entangled with an African-American chess hustler. The earliest story, 'Denton's Death', was first published in 1975, but the bulk of the collection can be firmly labelled 'most recent work'.

Heavy Water and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

MARTIN AMIS

Literary

Square cutting board with hide-away drawer to hold four-piece stainless steel cheese tools. Made of bamboo.

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Edward S. Herman

noam-chomsky

Humor & Entertainment

In this remarkable self-portrait, Patrick White explains how on the very rare occasions when he re-reads a passage from one of his books, he recognises very little of the self he knows. This 'unknown' is the man interviewers and visiting students expect to find, but 'unable to produce him', he prefers to remain private, or as private as anyone who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature can ever be. In this book, it is the self Patrick White does recognise, the one he sees reflected in the glass.

Flaws In the Glass

Biographies & Memoirs

Patrick White

Arts & Literature

Coming of Age in the Milky Way

Science & Math

TIMOTHY FERRIS

Astronomy & Space Science

Ogilvy on Advertising

Business & Money

DAVID OGILVY

Marketing & Sales

Lunar Park

ELLIS, BRET EASTON

Humor & Satire

Softcover, spine creased, tipped, but -- tight &amp; clean. 1989 'Vintage' 1st thus.

Small Ceremonies

SHIELDS, Carol

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Slave and Citizen is a classic in the field of comparative slave history and race relations."A significant historiographic milestone in the study of American slave systems. It has been a point of departure for most studies done on slavery and race relations since World War II."-Franklin W. Knight

Slave & Citizen: The Negro in the Americas

Tannenbaum, Frank

Community & Culture

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